Saturday, May 19, 2012

Spacex

May 19, 2012: This framegrab from NASA-TV shows the Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket being fueled on the launch pad at complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla.AP CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.

(FOX News)

A failed rocket engine valve appears to be responsible for the unexpected abort of a private SpaceX rocket launch before dawn on Saturday, officials said. SpaceX was slated to blast off its unmanned Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rocket at 4:55 a.m.

(msnbc.com)

When the countdown to its launch ended early Saturday morning, Dragon, the first private spacecraft to ever attempt docking with the international space station, did not take off.

(YAHOO!)

This morning's scheduled launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was scrubbed with less than a second remaining on the countdown clock. In the pre-dawn darkness at Cape Canaveral in Florida, everything was looking good for a 4:55 a.m.

(Wired News)

The first attempt to send a commercial supply ship to the International Space Station will need a do-over.

ON MAY 18th Facebooks share price failed to take off in the social networks mammoth initial public offering. A day later another high-tech firm, SpaceX, shared the same fate—this time literally.

(Economist.com)

This is not a failure. We aborted with purpose. It would be a failure if we were to have lifted off with an engine trending in this direction.

(Central Florida News 13)

"Entering terminal count autosequence. 60 seconds to engine fire. #DragonLaunch," Tweeted Elon Musk as his space company was less than a minute away from it's historic flight. But the launch didn't happen.